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Yield refers to the fraction of a fission product produced per fission. Yield can be broken down by: Individual isotope; Chemical element spanning several isotopes of different mass number but same atomic number. Nuclei of a given mass number regardless of atomic number. Known as "chain yield" because it represents a decay chain of beta decay.
Fission product yields by mass for thermal neutron fission of U-235 and Pu-239 (the two typical of current nuclear power reactors) and U-233 (used in the thorium cycle). This page discusses each of the main elements in the mixture of fission products produced by nuclear fission of the common nuclear fuels uranium and plutonium.
Mesh is a measurement of particle size often used in determining the particle-size distribution of a granular material.For example, a sample from a truckload of peanuts may be placed atop a mesh with 5 mm openings.
Fracture toughness varies by approximately 4 orders of magnitude across materials. Metals hold the highest values of fracture toughness. Cracks cannot easily propagate in tough materials, making metals highly resistant to cracking under stress and gives their stress–strain curve a large zone of plastic flow.
The helium molar fraction, i.e. the number of helium atoms per molecule of gas, is 0.15 ± 0.03 [22] in the upper troposphere, which corresponds to a mass fraction 0.26 ± 0.05. [ 18 ] [ 95 ] This value is close to the protosolar helium mass fraction of 0.275 ± 0.01 , [ 100 ] indicating that helium has not settled in its centre as it has in ...
Caesium-137 (137 55 Cs), cesium-137 (US), [7] or radiocaesium, is a radioactive isotope of caesium that is formed as one of the more common fission products by the nuclear fission of uranium-235 and other fissionable isotopes in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
Krypton-85 (85 Kr) is a radioisotope of krypton.. Krypton-85 has a half-life of 10.756 years and a maximum decay energy of 687 keV. [1] It decays into stable rubidium-85.Its most common decay (99.57%) is by beta particle emission with a maximum energy of 687 keV and an average energy of 251 keV.
The Lennard-Jones potential is a simple model that still manages to describe the essential features of interactions between simple atoms and molecules: Two interacting particles repel each other at very close distance, attract each other at moderate distance, and eventually stop interacting at infinite distance, as shown in the Figure.